"Rainer Borchmann" <newsgroups_spam@t-online.de> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> i am using VS2005 prof . And i am developing an app
> that collect data from a COM -Port . The serial Device
> works fin with a notebook , and i will substitute the
> notebook by a PDA. the PDA has an Com-port.
>
> So the question is:
> How connect the Emulator with a serial port during
> development ?
>
> Bye
> Rainer
>
>

"Rainer Borchmann" <newsgroups_spam@t-online.de> wrote in message
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> "Paul G. Tobey [eMVP]" <p space tobey no spam AT no instrument no spam DOT
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>> I don't follow. You want to run your device-side program in the emulator
>> and see the data on the PC that is hosting the emulator? In order to do
>> that, you'll have to connect the serial port that the emulator has taken
>> over to use as one of its own, to another serial port on the PC that is
>> hosting the emulator, exactly as if you were connecting to any other
>> external device.
>>
>> That is, if the emulator is grabbing COM1 from the host PC to use as its
>> COM1, then you'll have to cable from that COM1 port on the PC to some
> other
>> serial port on the PC, COM2, say, and set up your PC-side code to look at
>> COM2.
>>
>> Am I close?
>
> Only in the time of developping and testing i will that the Emulator
> should
> use a COM-Port from the hosting PC (where also VS2005 is running)
>
> When the C# - programm ist ready , it will run on a WM5 Device with its
> own COM-Port
>
> The question ist for me, can the emulator use the COM-Port of the
> hosting PC as its own ?
>
>
> Bye (in hope you can read my english)
> Rainer
>
>
>
>
>

> I don't follow. You want to run your device-side program in the emulator
> and see the data on the PC that is hosting the emulator? In order to do
> that, you'll have to connect the serial port that the emulator has taken
> over to use as one of its own, to another serial port on the PC that is
> hosting the emulator, exactly as if you were connecting to any other
> external device.
>
> That is, if the emulator is grabbing COM1 from the host PC to use as its
> COM1, then you'll have to cable from that COM1 port on the PC to some
other
> serial port on the PC, COM2, say, and set up your PC-side code to look at
> COM2.
>
> Am I close?

> Open the emulator, then select File->Configure->Peripherals